Vannevar Ventures: Named after Vannevar Bush - America’s CTO during WWII - Vannevar Ventures is anchored on “investing in the most ambitious founders innovating at the intersection of bits, atoms, and American Dynamism”

Mission: Play a part in modernizing the technology infrastructure that powers the physical sectors of the economy and national security by investing in and being a valuable partner to the next generation of great American companies and entrepreneurs.

Investment Thesis: The highest density of power law returning investments made over the next decade will come from the cohort of startups solving hard problems (technical challenges) at the intersection of bits (software), atoms (hardware), and American Dynamism.

American Dynamism Ethos: The American Dynamism movement is derived from a patriotic accountability and recognition that domestic infrastructure decay, institutional inefficiency, industrial stagnation, supply chain fragility, adversarial overreliance, and the threat of the first generation over generation decline in quality of life yields extraordinary opportunity.

Bits, Atoms, & American Dynamism (“B+A+AD”): Since 1968, VC-backed companies are responsible for 77% of public company market cap and 92% of private sector R&D, but investment nor innovation has been evenly distributed as the physical sectors have largely been neglected.

Macro Thesis: In the wake of decades of domestic digitization and deindustrialization, financialization and globalization, the Great Financial Crisis, and the Pandemic, there are macroeconomic, geopolitical, and technological forces converging into a tidal wave of change that will manifest in a generation-defining technology innovation cycle.

These forces synergistically oppose the status quo and underpin a fundamental shift in where capital will be allocated, what technologies and applications of technologies will be developed, and where asymmetric upside resides.

Deployment Strategy: Vannevar Ventures will invest in 5-10 pre-Seed to Series A stage startups per quarter, optimizing for shots on goal with startups characterized by a relatively high probability of becoming a power law returning investment IF a relatively low number of key variables go right.

Note from the GP: Hi, I’m Tyler, the founder of H.E.N.R.Y Collective, which quickly became one of the largest and most popular venture syndicates on the AL platform after launching in June 2021.

Before starting HC I was an investor at Struck Capital, spent several years as an investment banker advising Tech founders on growth equity and M&A transactions, failed as a founder, and played D1 baseball in college.

My uniquely holistic experience as an ambitious founder, calculated investment banker, sophisticated early-stage investor, and Solo GP has materialized into an original, non-consensus perspective on markets, people, and venture investing. I’m confident this earned perspective, my entrepreneurial instinct, and the chip on my right shoulder distinctively equips me with the tools to deliver out-of-market returns to LPs while making an outsized, positive impact on portfolio companies.

H.E.N.R.Y Collective ⇒ Vannevar Ventures: Starting a venture syndicate full-time instead of taking the traditional path to Partner in VC was an asymmetric upside bet, and it has paid off by accelerating my learning curve as an investor, aligning with founders by taking on founder-like risk, and learning how to channel the heightened self-awareness generated by exercising full autonomy as a Solo GP.

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